Grape Chang Materialware Grape refers to the glass crafts in the shape of grapes made by the Chang family using ancestral craftsmanship. It is one of the unique traditional art forms in Beijing. In the 20th year of the reign of Emperor Guangxu of the Qing Dynasty (1894), Chang Zai, a descendant of the Mongolian ethnic group living in the Chongwai Flower Market area of Beijing, improved his mother's skill in making mud grapes and created the unique skill of making glass grapes. The glass grapes he made were famous in Beijing for their vivid images and were called "Grape Chang". The works of "Grape Chang" were appreciated by Empress Dowager Cixi, who gave him a plaque "Tianyi Chang". Later, he won an award at the Panama International Exposition in San Francisco, USA in 1915. Due to family reasons, the Chang family established a family rule of "passing on to daughters but not to sons, and passing on to the family but not to outsiders". With the changes of the times, "Grape Chang" has experienced ups and downs several times and has now been passed down to the fifth generation. Grape Chang Materialware Grape uses low-temperature glass as raw material. When making it, it goes through 11 processes such as chemical material, blowing, making stems, making leaves and whiskers, coloring, waxing, "frost", and assembling. Among them, coloring and frosting grapes are family skills. The glass grapes made by the Chang family are very vivid in shape and color, representing the highest level of folk glass grape production. As the only glass grape production craft in Beijing and even in the whole country, it has been passed down since the Qing Dynasty and has a wide influence in the country. It is a typical representative of traditional folk crafts. Due to the limitations of the inheritance method, there are only two people in the Chang family who master the production skills of glass grapes. There is a crisis of inheritance and it is in urgent need of protection. (No pictures yet, welcome to provide.) (No pictures yet, welcome to provide.)